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cherub . . . thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire . . . thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day
that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. Therefore I will cast thee out of the mountain of God and destroy
thee. . . . "
The "Mountain of God" means the "Mountain of the Gods" or Meru, whose representative in the Fourth Race was Mount
Atlas, the last form of one of the divine Titans, so high in those days that the ancients believed that the heavens rested on
its top. Did not Atlas assist the giants in their war against the gods? (Hyginus). Another version shows the fable as arising
from the fondness of Atlas, son of Iapetus and Clymene, for astronomy, and from his dwelling for that reason on the
highest mountain peaks. The truth is that Atlas, "the mountain of the gods," and also the hero of that name, are the
esoteric symbols of the Fourth Race, and his seven daughters, the Atlantides, are the symbols of its Seven Sub-races.
Mount Atlas, according to all the legends, was three times as high as it is now; having sunk at two different times. It is of a
volcanic origin, and therefore the voice
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within Ezekiel says: "I will bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee," etc. (v. 18). Surely it does not
mean, as seems to be the case from the translated texts, that this fire was to be brought from the midst of the Prince of
Tyrus, or his people, but from Mount Atlas, symbolising the proud race, learned in magic and high in arts and civilization,
whose last remnant was destroyed almost at the foot of the range of those once gigantic mountains.
Truly, "thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more"; as the very name of the race and its fate is now
annihilated from man's memory. Bear in mind, that almost every ancient King and priest was an initiate; that from toward
the close of the Fourth Race there had been a feud between the Initiates of the Right and those of the Left Path; finally,
that the garden of Eden is referred to by other personages than the Jews of the Adamic race, since even Pharaoh is
compared to the fairest tree of Eden by this same Ezekiel, who shows "all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of
Lebanon, . . . comforted in the nether parts of the earth . . .," for "they also went down into hell with him" (Pharaoh)* unto
the nether parts, which are in fact the bottom of the ocean, whose floor gaped wide to devour the lands of the Atlanteans
and themselves. If one bears all this in mind and compares the various accounts, then one will find out that the whole of
chapters xxviii. and xxxi. of Ezekiel relate neither to Babylon, Assyria, nor yet Egypt, since none of these have been so
destroyed, but simply fell into ruins on the surface, not beneath the earth -- but indeed to Atlantis and most of its nations.
And he will see that the "garden of Eden" of the Initiates was no myth, but a locality now submerged. Light will dawn upon
him, and he will appreciate such sentences as these at their true esoteric value: "Thou hast been in Eden; . . . thou wast
upon the holy mountain of God" -- for every nation had and many still have holy mountains: some, Himalayan Peaks,
others, Parnassus, and Sinai. They were all places of initiation and the abodes of the chiefs of the communities of ancient
and even modern adepts. And again: "Behold, the Assyrian (why not Atlantean, Initiate?) was a cedar in Lebanon; . . . his
height was exalted above all the trees; . . . . the cedars in the garden of God could not hide him, . . . so that all the trees of
Eden . . . . envied him" (Ezekiel xxxi. 3-9).
Throughout all Asia Minor, the Initiates were called the "trees of Righteousness," and the cedars of Lebanon, as also
were some kings of Israel. So were the great adepts in India, but only the adepts of the
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* The only Pharaoh whom the Bible shows going down into the Red Sea was the king who pursued the Israelites, and
who remained unnamed, for very good reasons, perhaps. The story was surely made up from the Atlantean legend.
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left hand. When Vishnu Purana narrates that "the world was overrun with trees," while the Prachetasas -- who "passed
10,000 years of austerity in the vast ocean" -- were absorbed in their devotions, the allegory relates to the Atlanteans and
the adepts of the early Fifth Race -- the Aryans. Other "trees (adept Sorcerers) spread, and overshadowed the
unprotected earth; and the people perished . . . unable to labour for ten thousand years." Then the sages, the Rishis of
the Aryan race, called Prachetasas, are shown "coming forth from the deep,"* and destroying by the wind and flame
issuing from their mouths, the iniquitous "trees" and the whole vegetable kingdom; until Soma (the moon), the sovereign
of the vegetable world, pacifies them by making alliance with the adepts of the Right Path, to whom he offers as bride
Marisha, "the offspring of the trees."** This means that which is given in the Stanzas and Commentaries, and what is also
given in Part II. of Vol. I., "The Sacred Island." It hints at the great struggle between the "Sons of God" and the Sons of
the Dark Wisdom -- our forefathers; or the Atlantean and the Aryan Adepts.
The whole History of that period is allegorized in the Ramayana, which is the mystic narrative in epic form of the struggle
between Rama -- the first king of the divine dynasty of the early Aryans -- and Ravana, the symbolical personation of the
Atlantean (Lanka) race. The former were the incarnations of the Solar Gods; the latter, of the lunar Devas. This was the
great battle between Good and Evil, between white and black magic, for the supremacy of the divine forces, or of the
lower terrestrial or cosmic powers. If the student would understand better the last statement, let him turn to the Anugita
episode of the Mahabharata, chapter v., where the Brahmana tells his wife, "I have perceived by means of the Self the
seat abiding in the Self -- (the seat) where dwells the Brahman free from the pairs of opposites and the moon, together
with the fire (or the sun), upholding (all) beings (as), the mover of the intellectual principle." The moon is the deity of the
mind (Manas) but only on the lower plane. "Manas is dual -- lunar in the lower, solar in its upper portion," says a
commentary. That is to say, it is attracted in its higher aspect towards Buddhi, and in its
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* Vishnu Purana, Book I., ch. xv.
** This is pure allegory. The waters are a symbol of wisdom and of occult learning. Hermes represented the sacred
Science under the symbol of fire; the Northern Initiates, under that of water. The latter is the production of Nara, the